lundi 13 octobre 2014

Color therapy

This dream dress which was created especially for the Chromophilia exhibition at the Saint Pancras Gallery (Camdem) , inspired by my friend Claudia Innocenta's painting is full of mesmerising creatures between earth and sea (mermaids and fairies with colourful hair).

The process of creation was more painting than sewing, working on the base fine art experiment dress (see article on my blog). I created the skirt by adding every day for 10 days layers of paint glitters and rhinestones so the design developed itself organically from a white canvas to a colourful wearable painting. The bustier was made out of multicolour feathers .

The result is a synesthesia between a feeling and colour, the colours of dream impregnated on a garment. It reminded me the speech of Prospero in the Tempest by Shakespeare "We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep." where the dream become tangible, in French Nous sommes de la même étoffe que les songes, et notre vie infime est cernée de brouillard…it sounds more like theatre character are dress in the fabric of dream and I love this metaphor.

For the shoot, with the amazing photographer Anthony Lycett, (follow him on instagram) we went to Whistable, a lovely seaside resort of Kent with colourful fisherman house and a lot of charming Antique shops.

The idea was to make this hybrid creature emerging from her Kingdom by the sea, like the Annabel Lee of Edgar Poe…but we've been nearly caught by the tide..and by rhinestones shoes are definitely ruined!

This dress in relief as a lot stitched on, colourful flowers, beads, embroidered little dolls and barbie legs decorated with tulle dress and pink shoes. it is a potpourri between a Mexican day of the Dead an a kitsch pin up look.

"Close encounter with the third kind" ring available on my online shop

By Peter Hall

This dress have a very different dynamic then the dream dress and conveys more playful woman/child attitude, in comparison with the dream dress, more ethereal, do I wear my clothes or do the clothes wear me?

By Peter Hall

By Peter Hall

To complete the outfit, I used the hat I made for our Demoiselle de Rochefort drag performance with Luxurioux snacks (picture on my instagram gallery) and I stitched more barbie dolls on it, nothing is lost but everything is transformed

For the barbie legs, I am not using the real one, but the light plastic one that you find in pound shop. Usually I will be, this is a fake barbie but in this case they are better than the real one to create this "Can Can" effect

From my performance background, I like to create dresses with a narrative, incorporating humans part in a design make it more dramatic, where are theses legs coming from? To whom they belongs to?

The talented stylist Gianfranco Colla used some of my jewels for a tribal inspired shoot the dolls heads necklace fitted perfectly with the aesthetic (see my tribal costume on instagram)

Last but not least, the brilliant painter Ella Guru recently wrote a detailed article about the painting she made of Sue Kreitzman and me, revealing all the hidden message & her creative process, an occasion to look back at the exhibition last year in Cult Mountain

Sue is passing the baton to Anne Sophie, her young protégé. She is saying, be bold, be free, and be true to yourself. Express who you are, and don’t hold back. And whatever you do, “Don’t wear beige. It might kill you,” as Sue says." Ella Guru

1 commentaire:

Oooh...I spot some pieces you are wearing that I must have ;-) I really enjoy these outfits infused with your wonderful creations, I like how they transform the garment, someone might feel like the garment isn't very exciting on its own, but when you add one of your pieces, the garment seems to come to life in a way. I like that a lot :)) The painting is perfect :)) xxx

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I am a young designer in fashion costume and jewellery. I graduated last year in an MA in Performance Practice & Design at Central Saint Martins in London. I'm particularly interested in costume design, the performative aspect of costume and it social impact on people.

From my background in performance, the importance of clothing is how it allows you to stage yourself, to give information about who you are, or more precisely, about what you want people think you are.

I'm from Paris but I don't have at all the elegant minimalistic French style, I'm more attracted by bright colours, mismatch prints, shiny materials, over the top dresses. I try to build clothes with material which are not fabric, crossing boundaries of the costume experiment. I think that any object from everyday life can become a fashion accessory. Anything can be stitched on to clothes.

Basically, I like CYCLING and RECYCLING. I love going to charity shops or flee markets and seeing the creative potential of everyday objects. i have always created costume with nothing, sometimes with things I found in the street. I like to give second life to old objects and divert them from their original function. In my creations, i'm using a lots of toys, as a common reference from the collective imagery, a reminder of childhood that everybody shares in every country. I like the idea of transforming a piece of clothes into piece of art. With my creations I would like to foster peoples’ creativity and make them proud of themselves in feeling unique, original and different.

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I am currently completing an MA in Performance Practice and Design at Central Saint Martins and from my background in performance, the importance of clothing is how it allows you to stage yourself, to give information about who you are, or more precisely, about what you want people think you are.
With my creations I would like to foster peoples’ creativity and make them proud of themselves in feeling unique, original and different.